FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves a meeting with fellow Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. - J. Scott Applewhite/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told Democrats on Wednesday that President Trump’s State of the Union address was a “pack of lies” and she felt “very liberated” ripping...
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 348 for 6 (Taylor 109*, Nicholls 78, Latham 69, Yadav 2-84) beat India 347 for 4 (Iyer 103, Rahul 88*, Kohli 51, Southee 2-85) by four wickets
Ross Taylor shapes to play the ball - Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND - Naturalised wicketkeepers. Naturalised No. 5s. Tom Latham and KL Rahul played lovely...
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
President Donald Trump turns after handing copies of his speech to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 4, 2020. - J. Scott Applewhite/AP
WASHINGTON, D.C. – From start to finish, President Donald Trump's State...
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The US military deployed a new submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon, something the Pentagon sees as critical to countering the threat posed by Russia's arsenal of smaller tactical nukes.
Several former high-ranking administration officials, however, have said the weapons increase the potential for nuclear conflict.
"The US Navy has fielded the W76-2 low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead," John Rood, the...
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Being able to pay for housing — along with the rest of one’s everyday expenses — is a challenge for many Americans. And increasingly, that includes middle-income Americans.
A new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University calculates that 10.9 million renters spent more than 50% of their income on housing in 2018. That...
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
Brief Scorecard: India Under-19 176 for 0 (Jaiswal 105*, Saxena 59*) beat Pakistan Under-19 172 (Nazir 62, Haider 56, Mishra 3-28, Tyagi 2-32, Bishnoi 2-46) by 10 wickets
Yashasvi Jaiswal drills one through the off side. - Getty Images
Having been deflated with a collapse of 6 for 26, Pakistan Under-19 could pose no challenge to the India...
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
Prince William giving his speech at BAFTA. - James Veysey/BAFTA/Shutterstock
During his opening speech at the 73rd British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards, Prince William pointedly addressed the lack of diversity in the awards nominations — and assured that the organization would be reviewing their voting process following this year’s show.
“Catherine and I are once again...
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Former WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernard Ebbers (R) arrives with wife Kristie (C) at U.S. Federal Court for sentencing in New York July 13, 2005. REUTERS/Chip East/File Photo
Bernard Ebbers, who built WorldCom Inc into a telecommunications giant and was convicted in one of the largest U.S. accounting scandals, died on Sunday, his family said in a...
FEBRUARY 3, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines his government's negotiating stance with the European Union after Brexit, during a key speech at the Old Naval College in Greenwich, London, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool)
LONDON — Britain and the European Union set out clashing opening gambits Monday on striking a trade deal, making it clear that...
FEBRUARY 2, 2020
In July of 2017, International Business Machines Corp. executive Arvind Krishna walked into a routine meeting with senior leaders and delivered a surprise pitch that changed the course of the iconic 108-year-old company’s future.
For months Krishna, the head of IBM’s cloud computing division, had been thinking about a way to connect clients’ most important data, which was...
